Cragganwick Cremator
Most discard riders care which card leaves your hand; this one wagers on it. The trigger fires on a random discard, so the payoff depends entirely on how you stack the deck: pack it with fat creatures and the blind pull is likely to grab one, then it throws that creature's power at a face. The 5/4 body is a respectable beater on its own, which makes the dice-roll burn a bonus rather than the whole plan, and the failure case (pitching a noncreature card) costs you a card but still leaves a sizable Giant on the board. The real tension is between consistency and ceiling: the more your deck skews toward enormous creatures, the more reliably the trigger hits and the harder it hits, but you are also discarding the very threats you would rather cast. That pull between throwing a creature and keeping it is the whole puzzle. It sits near the reanimation-adjacent designs that turn a graveyard-filling effect into damage, except here the fuel never reaches the yard with any intent attached; the discard is blind, and the variance is the price of stapling burn to a hasteless 5/4. A card like this rewards a deck built around its randomness rather than around its reliability, which is a rarer design ask than it looks.
